President Rodrigo Duterte said he was “not ready to say we are ready for the (peace) talks again” with communist rebels but nevertheless asked them to “please kindly stop killing.”

Egypt’s security forces suffered one of their heaviest losses after militants firing rockets and detonating explosives hit a police operation on Friday in the western desert, authorities and security sources said on Saturday.

Eleven foreign workers were killed in a landslide at a construction site in northwest Malaysia on Saturday, authorities said.

The leader of the transport group that staged last week’s two-day strike accused the government of pushing a jeepney “marketing,” not modernization, program.

Butuan Bishop Juan de Dios Pueblos died on Saturday. He was 74.

Despite being declared "liberated" by President Duterte last week, fighting continued Sunday in Marawi City, where government forces gave some 30 Maute Group holdouts until midnight of Monday to surrender, promising to treat them humanely.

Allen Dizon and Angellie Nicholle Sanoy were honored for their portrayal of a deaf mute and his 16-year-old girlfriend.

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that, subject to receipt of further information, he planned to allow the opening of long-secret files on the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy due for release next week.

Lawyer Larry Gadon, who is pushing the impeachment of Chief Justice Sereno, wants the House Justice committee to summon two psychologists who conducted the psychological examination of Sereno when her application for the post of top magistrate was pending.

The ASEAN Security Task Force (ASTF) decided to cut short the convoy dry run scheduled Sunday (Oct. 22) due to heavy traffic along Edsa near Connecticut, where public works crews were rushing a re-blocking to deal with a suspected sinkhole.

Plain and simple extortion. That's the motivation, according to Caraga police, of the attack mounted by some 30 fully armed suspected communist rebels on a mining firm's quarry Friday midnight. The attackers torched property estimated at P9 million, and seized employee's cell phones and other belongings, the police added.

A normally easy Sunday traffic became a nightmare for motorists on the stretch of EDSA from Kamuning to the Greenhills area, owing to the emergency re-blocking by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) as authorities raced to deal with a suspected sinkhole at the corner of EDSA and Connecticut Street.

David Fincher's new crime drama series is a riveting show, heavy with mood, and dread.

Scattered rains will continue to prevail over most parts of the archipelago, state weather agency Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said Sunday.

Property developer Suntrust Properties Inc. (SPI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Megaworld Corp., has expressed confidence that its investments will grow amid the bullish economy of Negros Occidental, particularly Metro Bacolod.